The story of the shrine of Aparecida
Aparecida do Norte is a small town built on a hill about 175 km from the city of Sao Paulo, on the road to Rio de Janeiro. Beside it runs the broad, swift-flowing River Paraiba, which at this [...]Tags: Holy Rosary, Our Lady, Brasil, WYD, Pope Francis

Faith in the fact that God himself became man has been the joyful conviction of the Church from the very beginning. To come into the world, God chose to rely on the free cooperation of a human being, Mary, to be the mother of his [...]Tags: Doctrine, Holy Spirit, Church, Jesus Christ, Our Lady, Year of Faith

Please, Father, what can I do to love our Lady?
-I think you’re already doing what you can. You have some devotions at the year-end, a novena to the Immaculate Conception, right? Do you?
-Yes, fine.
-Well, I also advise you to follow the Seven Sundays of St [...]Tags: St Joseph, Our Lady, Devotion

On April 27, 1954, feast of our Lady of Montserrat, after having something like a severe allergic reaction, St Josemaria was cured inexplicably (according to medical opinion) of the diabetes which he had suffered from for several years.
People who have had a brush with death, [...]Tags: Sickness, Death, Our Lady

The Marian Shrine of Torreciudad is located in the Aragon Pyrenees, in the North of Spain. Once lost in the mountains, today the shrine is easily accessible, where peace and silence are found in a setting of great natural beauty.
Devotion to Our Lady of Torreciudad [...]Tags: Our Lady, Torreciudad, Pilgrimage

First day: November 30
In this vídeo-clip, St Josemaria teaches us to how to love our Lady as tenderly as children.
Second day: December 1
Text for meditation on Mary the Mother of God: this is the root of all the perfections and privileges with [...]Tags: Our Lady, novena

Our Lady is our Mother, explains St Josemaria, and as such she teaches us how to walk in the life of faith. The video was filmed in Valencia, Spain, on November 16, 1972.
- Father, I read in The Way that our Lady is our [...]Tags: Our Lady, Video-clip, Video

The shrine of Sonsoles in Avila, Spain, was the setting for an event in the history of St Josemaria and Opus Dei, the “May pilgrimage”. How did this custom first take root in Opus Dei?
A study published in Studia et Documenta looks at [...]Tags: Our Lady

Download the audio-clip of St Josemaria saying the Angelus, from the sidebar.
At 12 o’clock every day St Josemaria, in union with the Holy Father and millions of Catholics throughout the world, stood up and said the Angelus. Don Alvaro del Portillo recalled: “After reading the [...]Tags: Prayer, Our Lady, mp3, Audio